Message from @ChillS
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yea
i'm still confused. about entropy. is entropy about energy?
if so, no energy in a fractal.
Nope it’s actually really complicated. I can link you a paper that they write for physics undergrads trying to understand it
Basically it is a measure of how many states, given the rules of a system, something could possibly have sort of. So like a high entropy system would be a system where given the configuration, there are tons of ways it could exist in that way. Low entropy would be the opposite
im not relating fractals to 2nd law
so it's like a binary tree that keeps branching? more and more possibilities into infinity?
thats self similarity
Ehh so it wouldn’t really make sense to consider the entropy of that
Because your rules allow for one thing. Makes more sense to consider entropy of something like particles in a box
i guess fractals are sort of a natural way to deal with entropy
i had not thought of that though
Fractals have nothing to do with entropy they would be the lowest entropy things possible
Because they follow a single pattern to infinity
but the amount of particles is finite, and entropy is always increasing, no?
Almost always yes
2nd law isn’t really a *law*
Especially on small scales
right so lets take a signal for example
since the space it travels throught increases over a dictance
then the signal loses potency/energy over longer distances
fractals have taught us that we need to put things in place every so often to boost that signal
this is where you get branching patterns
Fractals have literally nothing to do with it
like in blood vessels
It’s not losing signal due to some like fractal branching
yes fractals are how we measure and deal with the self similar entropy
fractals are just instructions for an intimately repeating geometric pattern. There is no loss.
like a reinforcement
How do you think that’s related to a signal I don’t get it
fractals are not an action, they are an analysis
A signal does not lose power due to anything other than interactions with the medium
even a laser spreads out over distance
Not if perfectly collimated or whatever the term is
yeah, a wave would just get stretched by expanding space. red shift / blue shift. No energy loss.
In a vacuum
Attenuation and Dispersion
In space, if the laser was shot perfectly straight and all parallel, there would be no dispersion of the light if space was a perfect vacuum